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Hi Kay,

I succeeded in passing macros on the command line, now I want to open a generic display from this top level display and selectively assign one of the macros. I am using an action button to open the related display. I have tried assigning the generic macro to one of macros passed from the command line (GENERIC_MACRO = $(MACRO1)), in the related display dialog box, but the macro doesn’t expand. The new screen shows the value of GENERIC_MACRO as $(MACRO1) rather than the value of $(MACRO1).

How can accomplish this?

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On 12/1/20, 9:54 AM, "Kasemir, Kay" <kasemirk at ornl.gov> wrote:

    > I am trying to open a CSS Phoebus screen and I want to pass the value of a macro from the command line at startup. How can I do this?


    Amongst your options:

    Add the file and macros to the command line,
    phoebus.sh -resource file:/path/to/file?MACRO1=value+1&MACRO2=ab


    Or create predefined macros in a my_settings.ini file:
     org.csstudio.display.builder.model/macros=<EXAMPLE_MACRO>Value from Preferences</EXAMPLE_MACRO>
    .. and then start with that settings file:
    phoebus.sh -settings /path/to/my_settings.ini

    Or define the macro as environment variables, since macros fall back to them
    export EXAMPLE_MACRO=SomeValue
    export ANOTHER_MACRO=SomeOtherValue
    phoebus.sh

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